La Asamblea Nacional de las Tribus, Clanes y Familias Palestinas: the occupation wage an all-out war against our Palestinian people, targeting them in all their components, and continues to commit its war of extermination one year after the October 2023 agreement.

La Asamblea Nacional de las Tribus, Clanes y Familias Palestinas:

▪ the occupation wage an all-out war against our Palestinian people, targeting them in all their components, and continues to commit its war of extermination one year after the October 2023 agreement.

▪ the occupation executed 30 of our Christian people during the war of extermination and erased an entire family from Al-Souri; and targeted the various religious, cultural and educational assets belonging to the church.

▪ We mourn the martyrs Mary Hafez Abu Dawood and her daughter Misa Abu Dawood, who were martyred at dawn today after an Israeli bombardment targeted a residential apartment west of Gaza City.

▪ We affirm that Palestinian blood is one and that what our people are subjected to does not distinguish between Muslim and Christian; Christians of Gaza lived through the siege, hunger, bombardment and displacement alongside their people, and paid a heavy price in lives and property.

▪ Israeli attacks have affected churches and Christian religious, educational and cultural institutions; including the Church of the Holy Family, the Holy Family School, the Orthodox Cultural Center, and the Sisters of the Rosary School, in addition to previous damage to St. Porphyrius Church.

▪ What is happening in Gaza, in parallel with the attacks and violations affecting Islamic and Christian holy sites in Jerusalem and the rest of the Palestinian territories, reflects the seriousness of the situation faced by Palestinian civilians of all denominations.

▪ The continued killing of civilians and damage to places of worship and religious and educational institutions requires effective international action to ensure the protection of civilians, places of worship and civilian facilities, to stop military operations that endanger their lives, and to adhere to the rules of international humanitarian law.

▪ Protecting the Palestinian human being, whether Muslim or Christian, and protecting their holy sites and right to life and security, is a responsibility from which the international community must not shirk.